new project: moserial

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New project: moserial

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moserial is a clean, friendly gtk-based serial terminal for the gnome

desktop. It is written in vala for extra goodness.

 

 

Features

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- ASCII and HEX views of incoming and outgoing data

- Logging to file of incoming and/or outgoing data

- Support for x, y, and z-modem file send and receive

- Support for profile files, to load/save common configurations

- Easier to use than the alternatives

- Supports i18n

- It even has docs!

 

 

Who's It For?

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moserial is primarily intended for technical users and hardware hackers

who need to communicate with embedded systems, test equipment, and

serial consoles.

 

 

The Competition

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moserial seems to fill a gap in gnomish software.

 

moserial is intended to fully replace the qt/kde-based cutecom. cutecom

is nice, except that its UI is not well thought out - too many clicks

are need to start logging, for example. Plus the qt nature of it is out

of place in gnome.

 

moserial also partly replaces the text-based minicom.

 

For those migrating from Windows, moserial replaces the handy Hyperlog

for Windows (a non-free serial file capture utility), HyperTerminal (the

default simple serial app), and Bray++ (a hacker's serial terminal).

 

 

Where?

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The svn repo is at:

svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/moserial/trunk

 

The tarballs are here, for now:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=250455

 

You'll need a bleeding-edge distro (Fedora 10 or Ubuntu 9.04) to get a

sufficiently recent vala compiler.

 

 

Bugs

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I've asked for moserial to be added to gnome bugzilla. Presumably no

bugs will be found before then...

 

 

Enjoy!

 

 

- Mike

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